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<pre>Bison 3.4.2 is a bug fix release of the 3.4 series. It fixes a number of
hard-to-find bugs, mostly discovered by fuzzing.
In Bison 3.4 a particular focus was put on improving the diagnostics, which
are now colored by default, and accurate with multibyte input. Their format
was also changed, and is now similar to GCC 9's diagnostics.
Users of the default backend (yacc.c) can use the new %define variable
api.header.include to avoid duplicating the content of the generated header
in the generated parser. There are two new examples installed, including a
reentrant calculator which supports recursive calls to the parser and
Flex-generated scanner.
See below for more details.
==================================================================
Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated
context-free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser
employing LALR(1) parser tables. Bison can also generate IELR(1) or
canonical LR(1) parser tables. Once you are proficient with Bison, you can
use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in
simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.
Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars
work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to
use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C, C++ or Java
programming in order to use Bison.
Here is the GNU Bison home page:
https://gnu.org/software/bison/
==================================================================
Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.4.2.tar.gz (4.1MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.4.2.tar.xz (3.1MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.4.2.tar.gz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.4.2.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify bison-3.4.2.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 0DDCAA3278D5264E
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.16.1
Flex 2.6.4
Gettext 0.19.8.1
Gnulib v0.1-2844-g03add7eb9
==================================================================
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4.2 (2019-09-08) [stable]
** Bug fixes
In some cases, when warnings are disabled, bison could emit tons of white
spaces as diagnostics.
When running out of memory, bison could crash (found by fuzzing).
When defining twice the EOF token, bison would crash.
New warnings from recent compilers have been addressed in the generated
parsers (yacc.c, glr.c, glr.cc).
When lone carriage-return characters appeared in the input file,
diagnostics could hang forever.
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4.1 (2019-05-22) [stable]
** Bug fixes
Portability fixes.
* Noteworthy changes in release 3.4 (2019-05-19) [stable]
** Deprecated features
The %pure-parser directive is deprecated in favor of '%define api.pure'
since Bison 2.3b (2008-05-27), but no warning was issued; there is one
now. Note that since Bison 2.7 you are strongly encouraged to use
'%define api.pure full' instead of '%define api.pure'.
** New features
*** Colored diagnostics
As an experimental feature, diagnostics are now colored, controlled by the
new options --color and --style.
To use them, install the libtextstyle library before configuring Bison.
It is available from
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
for instance
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/libtextstyle-0.8.tar.gz
The option --color supports the following arguments:
- always, yes: Enable colors.
- never, no: Disable colors.
- auto, tty (default): Enable colors if the output device is a tty.
To customize the styles, create a CSS file similar to
/* bison-bw.css */
.warning { }
.error { font-weight: 800; text-decoration: underline; }
.note { }
then invoke bison with --style=bison-bw.css, or set the BISON_STYLE
environment variable to "bison-bw.css".
*** Disabling output
When given -fsyntax-only, the diagnostics are reported, but no output is
generated.
The name of this option is somewhat misleading as bison does more than
just checking the syntax: every stage is run (including checking for
conflicts for instance), except the generation of the output files.
*** Include the generated header (yacc.c)
Before, when --defines is used, bison generated a header, and pasted an
exact copy of it into the generated parser implementation file. If the
header name is not "y.tab.h", it is now #included instead of being
duplicated.
To use an '#include' even if the header name is "y.tab.h" (which is what
happens with --yacc, or when using the Autotools' ylwrap), define
api.header.include to the exact argument to pass to #include. For
instance:
%define api.header.include {"parse.h"}
or
%define api.header.include {<parser/parse.h>}
*** api.location.type is now supported in C (yacc.c, glr.c)
The %define variable api.location.type defines the name of the type to use
for locations. When defined, Bison no longer defines YYLTYPE.
This can be used in programs with several parsers to factor their
definition of locations: let one of them generate them, and the others
just use them.
** Changes
*** Graphviz output
In conformance with the recommendations of the Graphviz team, if %require
"3.4" (or better) is specified, the option --graph generates a *.gv file
by default, instead of *.dot.
*** Diagnostics overhaul
Column numbers were wrong with multibyte characters, which would also
result in skewed diagnostics with carets. Beside, because we were
indenting the quoted source with a single space, lines with tab characters
were incorrectly underlined.
To address these issues, and to be clearer, Bison now issues diagnostics
as GCC9 does. For instance it used to display (there's a tab before the
opening brace):
foo.y:3.37-38: error: $2 of ‘expr’ has no declared type
expr: expr '+' "number" { $$ = $1 + $2; }
^~
It now reports
foo.y:3.37-38: error: $2 of ‘expr’ has no declared type
3 | expr: expr '+' "number" { $$ = $1 + $2; }
| ^~
Other constructs now also have better locations, resulting in more precise
diagnostics.
*** Fix-it hints for %empty
Running Bison with -Wempty-rules and --update will remove incorrect %empty
annotations, and add the missing ones.
*** Generated reports
The format of the reports (parse.output) was improved for readability.
*** Better support for --no-line.
When --no-line is used, the generated files are now cleaner: no lines are
generated instead of empty lines. Together with using api.header.include,
that should help people saving the generated files into version control
systems get smaller diffs.
** Documentation
A new example in C shows an simple infix calculator with a hand-written
scanner (examples/c/calc).
A new example in C shows a reentrant parser (capable of recursive calls)
built with Flex and Bison (examples/c/reccalc).
There is a new section about the history of Yaccs and Bison.
** Bug fixes
A few obscure bugs were fixed, including the second oldest (known) bug in
Bison: it was there when Bison was entered in the RCS version control
system, in December 1987. See the NEWS of Bison 3.3 for the previous
oldest bug.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128136#commentsGNUSat, 14 Sep 2019 22:07:27 +0000Roy Schestowitz128136 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgTPC-71W next-generation Arm-Based Industrial Panel PC for IoT applicationshttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128123
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Advantech Industrial IoT Group, announced TPC-71W – the new generation of its industrial panel PCs aimed at machine automation and web-terminal applications. TPC-71W is a cost-efficient, Arm-based industrial panel PC that features a 7” true-flat display with P-CAP multi-touch control, high resolution and an NXP Arm Cortex -A9 i.MX 6 dual/quad-core processor to deliver high-performance computing. The system also features a serial port with a 120Ω termination resistor that supports the CAN 2.0B protocol and offers a programmable bit rate of up to 1 Mb/sec. Equipped with the Google Chromium embedded web browser and support for various operating systems, including Android, Linux Yocto, and Linux Ubuntu with QT GUI toolkits, TPC-71W allows system integrators to easily develop and deploy a wide range of industrial applications.</p>
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<p>Also: <a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/13/raspberry-pi-cm3-eagleeye-smart-camera-opencv-labview-ni-vision/">Raspberry Pi CM3+ based EagleEye Smart Camera Works with OpenCV and LabVIEW NI Vision</a></p>
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128123#commentsGNULinuxHardwareSat, 14 Sep 2019 03:33:15 +0000Roy Schestowitz128123 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgStallman Under Fire for Views on Epsteinhttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128122
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<h5><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-defends-epstein-victims-were-entirely-willing">Famed MIT Scientist Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>While MIT engages in damage control following revelations the university’s Media Lab accepted millions of dollars in funding from Jeffrey Epstein, a renowned computer scientist at the university has fanned the flames by apparently going out of his way to defend the accused sex trafficker — and child pornography in general. </p>
<p>Richard Stallman has been hailed as one of the most influential computer scientists around today and honored with a slew of awards and honorary doctorates, but his eminence in the academic computer science community came into question Friday afternoon when purportedly leaked email excerpts showed him suggesting one of Epstein’s alleged victims was “entirely willing.”</p>
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<h5><a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2019/prominent-computer-scientist-mit-argues-definition">Prominent computer scientist at MIT argues definition of rape in defending money from dead sex offender</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>Richard Stallman, founder of Cambridge's Free Software Foundation and a visiting scientist at MIT, argues that Jeffrey Epstein's victims were likely "entirely willing" and to stop besmirching the good name of deceased MIT AI guru Marvin Minsky just because he might have "had sex with one of Epstein’s harem."</p>
<p>Vice reports Stallman made his comments on an MIT mailing list on which he objected to a protest being planned for next week over MIT's ties to the convicted sex offender long after his conviction.
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<h5><a href="https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/09/13/free-software-icon-richard-stallman-has-some-moronic-thoughts-about-pedophilia/">Free software icon Richard Stallman has some moronic thoughts about pedophilia</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>The world of academia is in turmoil over the shock discovery that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein funded several several prestigious science and technology research labs, including MIT’s Media Lab, long after his 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving children.</p>
<p>For the late Epstein, his generous donations served to whitewash his tainted reputation. They were part of a well-sculpted PR effort that also included paid-for puff pieces in publications like Forbes and HuffPost, which emphasised his philanthropy, while conveniently ignoring his crimes.
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<h5><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-described-epstein-victims-as-entirely-willing">Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>Richard Stallman, the computer scientist best known for his role in the free software movement, has joined the list of MIT men going out of their way to defend the university’s relationships with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.</p>
<p>Selam Jie Gano, an MIT alum, posted on Medium about an email thread in which Stallman argued that the late Marvin Minsky—an AI pioneer accused of assaulting one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre—had not actually assaulted anyone.</p>
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<h5><a href="https://futurism.com/richard-stallman-epstein-scandal">MIT Community Horrified by Famed Researcher’s Epstein Outburst</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>Since the July arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sex trafficking, a number of huge names in the world of tech — from Bill Gates to Elon Musk — have attempted to defend or deny any inkling of a relationship with the financier.</p>
<p>But one prominent computer scientist is seemingly going out of his way to insert himself into the scandal: MIT Visiting Scientist Richard Stallman.</p>
<p>MIT accepted millions of dollars in funding from Epstein, prompting one student group to organize a protest calling for the resignation of any senior MIT administrators who knew about the donations.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128122#commentsGNUSat, 14 Sep 2019 03:26:04 +0000Roy Schestowitz128122 at http://www.tuxmachines.org Catfish 1.4.10 Releasedhttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128095
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<p class="dropcap-first">The best Linux graphical file search utility keeps getting better! The latest release features a new preferences dialog, a polished user interface, and significantly improved search results and performance.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128095#commentsGNULinuxFri, 13 Sep 2019 16:21:25 +0000Roy Schestowitz128095 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgTop 20 Funny Steam Games For Kids To Play Right Now [on Linux]http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128075
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<p class="dropcap-first">There are ample of funny steam games for kids available on the store for the Linux system. A couple of years back, gaming on the Linux was almost impossible. Nevertheless, a vast range of games are now available in different Linux distros, thanks to steam. Moreover, playing games on Linux is no more difficult. However, many games even available for free. Additionally, there are different genres of games, such as indie, action, adventure, casual, strategy, simulation, RPG, Early Access, single-player, violent, and sports. Linux users can play all these genres of games on steam for absolutely free or spending a little buck.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128075#commentsGNULinuxGamingThu, 12 Sep 2019 18:36:11 +0000Roy Schestowitz128075 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgInternational Day Against DRM (IDAD): Defending the right to read on Oct. 12http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128067
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A global community of students, teachers, and activists are taking part in the Defective by Design campaign's 13th annual International Day Against DRM. Though from different backgrounds, countries, and perspectives, participants in the campaign share the common cause of opposing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), a widespread technology that places heavy restrictions on how people access digital media.</p>
<p>On Saturday, October 12th, there will be two events held in Boston: a protest outside of the Pearson Education offices at 501 Boylston Street, followed by an evening "hackathon," or collaboration session, on unrestricted and truly shareable educational materials at the offices of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) at 51 Franklin Street.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128067#commentsGNUThu, 12 Sep 2019 16:31:22 +0000Rianne Schestowitz128067 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgKaOS 2019.09http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128049
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KaOS is pleased to announce the availability of the September release of a new stable ISO.</p>
<p>As always with this rolling distribution, you will find the very latest packages for the Plasma Desktop, this includes Frameworks 5.61.0, Plasma 5.16.5 and KDE Applications 19.08.1. All built on Qt 5.13.1.</p>
<p>With almost 60 % percent of the packages updated since the last ISO and the last release being over two months old, a new ISO is more than due. News for KDE Applications 19.08 included Dolphin’s information panel has been improved in several ways. You can, for example, choose to auto-play media files when you highlight them in the main panel, and you can now select and copy the text displayed in the panel, Okular’s support for EPub documents has also received a push in this version, Konsole had a boost to the tiling feature and Spectacle comes with several new features that regulate its Delay functionality.</p>
<p>For the installer Calamares, two major CVE’s were addressed among the many changes for 3.2.13. CVE-2019-13178 and CVE-2019-13179</p>
<p>Since LibreOffice 6.2, it is now possible to supply this as a pure Qt5/kf5 application. LibreOffice has thus replaced Calligra as the default Office Application for KaOS.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128049#commentsGNUKDELinuxThu, 12 Sep 2019 10:46:03 +0000Roy Schestowitz128049 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgManjaro Linux 18.1.0 'Juhraya' has been officially releasedhttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128043
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<p class="dropcap-first">Manjaro, the Linux distribution based on Arch has just put out a major new release with Manjaro 18.1.0 - Juhraya.</p>
<p>Something of a controversial decision was the Manjaro team were possibly going to replace the FOSS office suite LibreOffice in favour of the proprietary FreeOffice. After they took on plenty of feedback, they decided to drop that plan. Instead, when installing you now get the choice between the two or no office suite at all. Additionally according to what the Manjaro team said, SoftMaker (the developer), actually expanded FreeOffice to support more Microsoft formats due to the demand from the Manjaro community so thats' quite nice.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128043#commentsGNULinuxThu, 12 Sep 2019 09:50:12 +0000Roy Schestowitz128043 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgIntroducing Craig Topham, FSF copyright and licensing associatehttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128038
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<p class="dropcap-first">My name is Craig Topham, and I’m the latest to have the honor of being a copyright and licensing associate for the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I started work in November, and the delay in assembling my introductory blog post is a testament to how busy I have been. Although my post feels late, it gives me a chance to share my experience here at the FSF, along with sharing a little bit more about myself.</p>
<p>From 2005 to 2017, I worked as a PC/Network Technician for the City of Eugene, Oregon. The role had the inherent reward of allowing me to be a part of something much larger than myself. I was helping local government function. From the mayor and city council all the way to the summer staff that worked the front desk at the recreation department's swimming pools, I was one of many making it all work. It was even a part of my job to support some free software the city used! Sadly, a vast majority of the software that we used was proprietary, but despite the painful duty of supporting nonfree software, the overall experience felt pretty great. As I close that chapter of my life with all the wonderful memories and marks made, I am beset with a wild sense of relief. Like finding a rock in my shoe after twelve years, the alleviation is palatable: I never have to labor to master proprietary software again!</p>
<p>For unknown reasons (which I contemplate often), I did not learn about the free software movement until 2004, despite a lifetime of using computers. Like so many before me, my initial education on the movement came via Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. What so instantaneously drew me to free software was the simplicity of the four freedoms: run, edit, share, contribute. These freedoms, coupled with the ethical nature of the movement, made it a natural fit for me. It did not take me long to realize that this is what I needed to soothe my “How can I make the world a better place?” angst. Inevitably, I became an FSF associate member on October 28, 2007 because it was (and still is) the easiest way to help out. If you are reading this and you are not a member, I encourage you to change that and help make the world a better place.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128038#commentsGNULegalWed, 11 Sep 2019 21:12:41 +0000Roy Schestowitz128038 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgOracle introduces patch series to add eBPF support for GCChttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128031
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<p class="dropcap-first">Yesterday, the team at Oracle introduced a patch series that brings a port of GCC to eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a virtual machine that is placed in the Linux kernel. With the support for binutils (binary tools), this port can be used for developing compiled eBPF applications.</p>
<p>eBPF was initially used for capturing user-level packet and filtering, it is now used to serve as a general-purpose infrastructure for non-networking purposes as well.</p>
<p>Since May, Oracle has been planning on introducing an eBPF back-end to GCC 10 to make the GNU compiler target the general-purpose in-kernel virtual machine. Oracle’s inclination on bringing in the eBPF support for GCC is part of the company’s efforts towards improving DTrace on Linux.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128031#commentsDevelopmentGNUWed, 11 Sep 2019 20:08:19 +0000Roy Schestowitz128031 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgScreencasts and Shows: Debian 10.1 KDE Run Through, LINUX Unplugged and mintCast http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128009
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In this video, we are looking at Debian 10.1. Enjoy!
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<h5><a href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/134332/manjaro-levels-up-linux-unplugged-318/">Manjaro Levels Up | LINUX Unplugged 318</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>It’s offical, Manjaro is a legitmate buisness; so what happens next? We chat with Phil from the project about their huge news.</p>
<p>Plus we share some big news of our own, and the strange feels we get from Chrome OS.</p>
<p>Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Philip Muller.
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<h5><a href="https://mintcast.org/2019/09/11/mintcast-317-yak-shaving/">mintCast 317 – Yak Shaving</a></h5>
<blockquote><p>This week, in our Wanderings, Toyam (Void Linux maintainer) shaves a yak and gets to soldering, I blew up and recovered my Mint install, Tony’s been editing audio and LUGing, Josh has been playing with Windows Subsystem for Linux , and Joe finally gets the Note 10</p>
<p>Then, in our news we cover the Linux Mint Monthly News, exFAT in the kernel, iPhone and Android exploits and the new Pinebook Pro</p>
<p>In security, we talk Firefox and why you should give it another try
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/128009#commentsGNULinuxWed, 11 Sep 2019 11:05:39 +0000Roy Schestowitz128009 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgRK3399 hacker board upgrade adds 4GB LPDDR4 RAMhttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127995
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<p class="dropcap-first">FriendlyElec has released an upgraded version of its Rockchip RK3399 based SBC, the NanoPi-M4. Called NanoPi M4V2, the new $70 board is mostly identical to its predecessor, but offers 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, along with two user buttons for power and recovery.</p>
<p>A little over a year ago, FriendlyElec rolled out its third RK3399 based SBC of 2018, the NanoPi-M4. The board seemed to hit on a sweet spot tradeoff in terms of an affordable SBC with a decent amount of RAM. Now the company has launched an upgraded version, the NanoPi-M4 that has 4GB or RAM while moving to the more advanced LPDDR4, in contrast to the NanoPi M4’s LPDDR3. While the NanoPi-M4 costs $75 in its 4GB version ($50 for 2GB), the new NanoPi-M4V2 with 4GB costs only $70. The new board adds two new users buttons—for power and recovery—that were not on the original NanoPi-M4. Other differences on the new NanoPi M4V2 include 2×2 MIMO support and an inconsequential heavier weight of 50.62 grams (versus 47.70g).</p>
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<p>Also: <a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/10/70-nanopi-m4v2-sbc-gets-4gb-lpddr4-ram-power-recovery-buttons/">$70 NanoPi M4V2 SBC Gets 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, Power &amp; Recovery Buttons</a></p>
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127995#commentsGNULinuxHardwareTue, 10 Sep 2019 21:24:17 +0000Roy Schestowitz127995 at http://www.tuxmachines.org Archman Xfce 2019-09 is Released with Some Improvements and a Number of Bug Fixeshttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127978
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<p class="dropcap-first">Talliana has announced the new release of Archman XFS 2019-09 on September 05, 2019 and named it “Lake with Fish”.</p>
<p>In this release you will see a 70% centered panel at the bottom of the screen. With this panel’s smart hiding feature, the entire screen will be in your use.</p>
<p>Also, window tasks are grouped as icon in the panel.</p>
<p>To make the distro more elegant, they used the Surf Arch icon by default instead of the Papyrus icon set.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127978#commentsGNULinuxTue, 10 Sep 2019 18:10:22 +0000Roy Schestowitz127978 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgRaspberry Pi 4 Review and Benchmarkshttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127977
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A System-on-Chip (SoC) is a Central Processing Unit (CPU) with other components built into the same chip. In the RPi4 the Graphical Processor Unit (GPU) is built-in to the CPU. Nearly every component on the board can be integrated into the CPU.</p>
<p>The Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) is made by the Arm Holdings which only develops designs. The ARM Holdings does not produce the chips but produces the designs of the processor and separate Intellectual Property (IP) Blocks.</p>
<p>An IP Block will consist of one component. For example, an IP Block can contain the design for a USB Hub Controller. Another example would be an IP Block for Bluetooth.</p>
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<p>The RPi4 is a better improvement over the RPi3 in all of the hardware upgrades made to it.</p>
<p>There seem to be complaints about heating issues but this will occur on any type of higher end processor. If you run an RPi4 then you may want to invest in a fan to keep it cool.</p>
<p>The uses of the RPi4 are numerous for many projects which could benefit from a small system board. The Internet has many projects listed with designs for building anything you may want. These designs can range from arcade game consoles to sensors within your house. There are also designs for robots as well.</p>
<p>Once there are 64-bit Operating Systems available for the RPi4 then things will be more interesting. It is possible to get a 64-bit OS to work, but it requires a bit of hoops to jump through to make it work.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127977#commentsGNULinuxHardwareTue, 10 Sep 2019 18:07:32 +0000Roy Schestowitz127977 at http://www.tuxmachines.orgCompuLab's Airtop 3 Is The Most Powerful Fan-Less Computer We've Tested Yethttp://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127944
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<p class="dropcap-first">The past month and a half we have been putting CompuLab's Airtop 3 computer through some demanding benchmarks and a variety of endurance workloads. With the Airtop 3 under test loaded with an 8-core / 16-thread Xeon processor, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics, and 64GB of RAM with NVMe SSD storage there were some concerns over thermal throttling and if this fan-less industrial PC design could really deal with the generated heat. But after all of this testing, the Airtop 3 continues running strong and another shining example of CompuLab's engineering strength.</p>
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127944#commentsGNULinuxHardwareTue, 10 Sep 2019 00:41:45 +0000Roy Schestowitz127944 at http://www.tuxmachines.org